196 A MANUAL OF BACTERIOLOGY 



After the introduction of Antiseptics. 



The number of lives saved out of the 102,961 

 deliveries since the introduction of antiseptics is 

 the following : 



Expected deaths on Le Fort's basis, . 3522 

 Actual deaths, . . . 51 1 1 



Saving, . . 3011 



From the above figures it will be seen that while 

 according to M. Le Fort, the maternal deaths in 

 European lying-in hospitals were 34'21 per 1000 

 under the old regime, the mortality is now reduced 

 to somewhat less than 5 per 1000. This computa- 

 tion, put in another way, indicates that if the former 

 rate of mortality had been maintained 3522 maternal 



1 4-363 per 1000. 



